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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How does tumblr keep jumping into bad decisions don't they know their audience lmao

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they let themselves get bought by Yahoo and they banned erotic art. Its like they want to fail.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then they got bought automattic, the owners of wordpress.com

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yes, I recall when they had a policy of never allowing account deletion.